Holly Hurd

Holly-Kai Hurd is both a visual artist and an educator. Blending her artistic and ARTivist ideals, her work focuses on art as a means of self-discovery and healing. She has remained committed to the art of storytelling utilizing various mediums such as fashion, textiles, graphic arts and even culinary art to explore the domestic arts and tradition. She served as Curator of The Charles Cousins Gallery at The Blair Caldwell Library from 2009-2012 where under the name Art Blaque she curated over 36 shows to include Culinary Chronicles of Blackness, Get On The Bus, Bringing Forth Beauty: African American Women Create, Black Resistance IS (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Studios) and more. While there she founded ‘LIVE On The Canvas’ a live interview platform for local artists and publication at The Blair Caldwell Library (2010). Holly has worked with various organizations such as It Takes A Village, Summer Scholars, The Etta B. Jackson Cultural Village, Caldwell Kirk Mortuary. Holly holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film from Emerson College (Boston, MA).